We discussed this in the WB thread where I said, its the strong set up that existed in WB that makes it still tick even when so many industries left the state. If it had the right govt, it would have rivaled Maharashtra.

Maharashtra has historically had consistently better leadership than in the rest of the country, yet I don't see anyone pitching Maharashtra's CM to be the future PM, but a mediocre performer like Modi continues to get support, especially from the very vocal (though numerically irrelevant ) right-wing.

What doesn't make sense to me though is that is if all the states grew on average 10% or higher for FY2012, how come India's GDP growth was less than 7%?

Maharashtra has historically had consistently better leadership than in the rest of the country, yet I don't see anyone pitching Maharashtra's CM to be the future PM, but a mediocre performer like Modi continues to get support, especially from the very vocal (though numerically irrelevant ) right-wing.

What doesn't make sense to me though is that is if all the states grew on average 10% or higher for FY2012, how come India's GDP growth was less than 7%?

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simple because Maharashtian never tried really hard for projecting some-one to become PM .Most of time congrees ruled maharsahtra and in congress apart of gandhis no one become PM without blessing of parwair .
Sharad pawar tried but was backstabbed by then CM of maharsahtra and Narishma Rao become PM of India.

If any other party had ruled Maharashtra for more then 3 continuous years then his/her chances of becoming PM of India was bright.

Other reason is CM of maharashtra can earn more then becoming PM of India (if u know what i mean) .

Durning United front rule Jyto Basu of left had chance to become PM but then his chances were scuttled by his own party CPI(M) citting they donot have numbers (how stupid of them) they thought in future election s they would have numbers and then form their own gov but then they are still waiting for it

Maharashtra has historically had consistently better leadership than in the rest of the country, yet I don't see anyone pitching Maharashtra's CM to be the future PM, but a mediocre performer like Modi continues to get support, especially from the very vocal (though numerically irrelevant ) right-wing.

What doesn't make sense to me though is that is if all the states grew on average 10% or higher for FY2012, how come India's GDP growth was less than 7%?

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Something is wrong with those figures as Bihar grew at 24%, Maha at 16% etc. may be its in terms of rupees that the growth was this much but because of the dramatic decline of the rupee, the growth in dollar terms declined.

In terms of rate of growth, Gujarat with 15.33% is not among the top ten. The list is led by Arunachal Pradesh at 27.53% and Bihar at 24.4%, with Jammu % Kashmir at 15.80% at tenth.

Even among the top ten states in terms of percentage share of contribution to national GDP, Gujarat's growth rate is only fifth. The first four being Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, and Maharashtra.

-GDP of Maharashtra is more than GDP of whole Pakistan (thanks to Mumbai)
-Half the states still have per capita income less than that of Pakistan.
-North Korea's per capita income is more than India!
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Delhi has agriculture sector of size 2739 crore ???

Maharashtra has historically had consistently better leadership than in the rest of the country, yet I don't see anyone pitching Maharashtra's CM to be the future PM, but a mediocre performer like Modi continues to get support, especially from the very vocal (though numerically irrelevant ) right-wing.

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Modi, I think in early days realised the concept, jo dikhta hai, woh bikta hai, he without a shred of doubt positioned himself well. No denying that he has done the job, he has, been better than mediocre, but yes, slightly over hyped, but then, the Hindu right needed someone who gets seen as successful and be their poster boy, and so emerged Modi.

At least for me, more than the bigger, sea bordering states, the real success stories are Haryana and Chattisgarh, what phenomenal work these 2 have done.